2026 Horror Watchlist
Updated: Sep 22
What. Fresh. Hell is coming to screens in 2026? Here is my horror watchlist to keep track of movies and series. Dates are subject to change and often do.
Movies I've seen marked are marked in orange. My full movie reviews are available on Letterboxd.
🔥 Loved It 👍🏽 Liked & Recommended 😐 Just Okay & Time Killer 👎🏽 Not Recommended
JANUARY
2 - We Bury the Dead👍🏽
9 - Primate
9 - Greenland 2: Migration 😐
16 - 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple 👍🏽
16 - Night Patrol 👎🏽
23 - Return to Silent Hill 👎🏽
23 - Mother of Flies (Shudder) 👍🏽
30 - Send Help 👍🏽
30 - Iron Lung 👍🏽
FEBRUARY
6 - Dracula (Dir. Luc Besson)
6 - Whistle 😐
6 - The Strangers; Chapter 3
6 - The Arborist (Dark Sky Films) 😐
8 - The Burbs (Series, Peacock) 👍🏽
11 - Gale: Yellow Brick Road
13 - Cold Storage
13 - Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die 😐
17 - Ghost Train (South Korean Anthology)
20 - Psycho Killer 👎🏽
20 - This is Not a Test
20 - The Dreadful (period piece) 👎🏽
23 - No Me Sigas (Hulu) 👎🏽
27 - Scream 7
27 - Crazy Old Lady (Shudder)
27 - Monarch: Legacy of Monsters S2 (Series, Apple TV)
MARCH
6 - The Bride! (Dir. Maggie Gyllenhal) 🔥
6 - Dolly (Shudder)
13 - Undertone 🔥
13 - Bodycam (Shudder) 👌🏽
20 - Project Hail Mary 🔥
20 – 1000 Women in Horror (Documentary, Shudder)
20 - Ready or Not 2: Here I Come 🔥
26 - Something Very Bad is Going to Happen (Netflix) 👍🏽
27 - Alpha (Dir. Julia Ducournau)
27 - They Will Kill You 👍🏽
27 - The Mortuary Assistant (Shudder) 💩
27 - Forbidden Fruits 👍🏽
APRIL
3 - The Third Parent
7 – Touch Me 😐
8 – The Boys, Season 5 (Prime) ✋🏽
10 - Exit 8 🔥
10 - Faces of Death 👍🏽
10 – Hunting Matthew Nichols
10 – The Yeti
10 - Thrash (Netflix)
17 - Marama (period horror) 👍🏽
17 - Lee Cronin's The Mummy 🔥
24 - Over Your Dead Body 👍🏽
24 – Mother Mary (A24) 🔥
24 – Apex (Netflix)
24 – The Wolf and the Lamb
29 – Widow's Bay (Series, Apple TV) 🔥
MAY
1 - Hokum 🔥
1 – Deep Water
5 - Scared to Death
7 - The Terror S3: Devil In Silver (Series, Shudder) 🔥
8 - Whistle (Shudder) ✋🏽
8 - Mortal Kombat II
8 – Buffet Infinity
15 - Obsession 🔥
22 – This is Not A Test (Shudder)
22 – Corporate Retreat
22 – Sick Puppy
22 – Saccharine 👍🏽
22 - Passenger (Dir. Andre Ovredal) 👎🏽
29 - Backrooms 🔥
JUNE
5 - Masters of the Universe
5 - Scary Movie 6
5 – Affection (VOD)
5 – Cape Fear (Series, Apple TV) 👍🏽
7 – The Vampire Lestat (Series, AMC+)
12 – The Furious
12 – Kraken (VOD)
12 – I Am Frankelda (Netflix) 👍🏽
12 - Disclosure Day 😐
19 - Leviticus (Queer horror)
19 – The Voices of Our Mother (Shudder)
19 – The Rose of Nevada
23 – Hold the Fort 😐
26 – Hungry
26 – Strung (Peacock)
JULY
3 - Shiver
7 – Black Box
10 – Corporate Retreat
10 – Camp
17 – The Bay
24 - Evil Dead Burn 👍🏽
24 – Pinocchio Unstrung
24 – Her Private Hell
31 – Nightborn (Shudder) 😐
AUGUST
1 – SOULM8TE
7 - Eli Roth's Ice Cream Man
7 – The Last House (Netflix) 👎🏽
7 – Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma
14 - The End of Oak Street 😐
21 - Insidious: Out of the Further 👍🏽
21 – It Ends
21 – Bury the Devil
28 – Colony
28 – Buddy
28 – The Whisper Man (Netflix) 👎🏽
SEPTEMBER
4 – Fall 2: Deadpoint
4 – Onslaught
4 – Parasomnia (Shudder)
9 – Hope
11 – Don't Move
11 – Practical Magic 2
17 – Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story (Netflix)
18 - Resident Evil
18 - Goody Goody (Shuddder)
24 – American Horror Story: 13 (FX, Series)
25 – Never After Dark
25 – Family
29 – Deathgasm 2: Goremageddon (one night only)
OCTOBER
2 – Beware BOIÚNA
2 – Ghost in the Cell (Indonesian)
2 – Verity (with Anne Hathaway)
2 – Crawlers
7 – Carrie (Series, Amazon Prime)
8 – Below (Series, Netflix)
9 – Other Mommy
9 – VHS: Mixtape (Shudder)
9 – R.L. Stein's Pumpkinhead 2 (Tubi)
13 – Deathgasm 2: Goremageddon (VOD)
15 – Crystal Lake (Series, Peacock)
16 – Whalefall
16 – At the Place of Ghosts
16 – The Devils (re-release)
16 – Breeder
16 – Crawlers
23 – The Cycle (Shudder)
23 - Wildwood (Laika, stop motion fantasy)
23 – Clayface
23 - Yaga (Series, AMC+)
30 – Christmas at the Kringles
30 – Stilletto
NOVEMBER
1 - Unholy Night
6 - Godzilla Minus Zero
13 - Victorian Psycho
13 - Return of the Living Dead
13 - Ebenezer (Dir. Ti West Christmas Carol)
13 - The Great Beyond (Dir. J.J. Abrams)
24 – Her Private Hell
26 – What Happened to Doris? (Remake of The Entity)
DECEMBER
4 - Violent Night 2
25 - Werwulf (dir. Robert Eggers)
UPCOMING MOVIES (DATE TBA)
Altar (A24, starring Kyle MacLachlan)
Anything But Ghosts (Dir. Curry Barker)
Beacon
The Blair Witch Project (Reboot, 9/24/2027)
Blasphemous (9/23/2027)
Boutique (Paul Giamatti, XYZ Films)
Bowels of Hell (killer toilets!!!)
The Call of Cthulhu (dir. James Wan)
Coherence 2
The Conjuring: First Communion (9/10/2027)
A Corpse in Kensington 2026
Dead by Daylight
Don't Go In That House, Bitch! (Eli Roth producing)
Dooba Dooba
Drag (January 29, 2027)
Evil Dead Wrath (Dir. Francis Galluppi, 4/7/2028)
The Exorcist: Martyrs (Dir. Mike Flanagan; 3/12/2027)
Final Destination 7 (May 12, 2028)
The Ghost (An Taibhse)
Ghosts: The Possession of Button House (U.K.)
Ghost Eaters
Gladys (prequel to Weapons, September 8, 2028)
Godzilla X Kong: Supernova
Gremlins 3 (2027)
The Haunting in Wicker Park (formerly True Haunting)
Horrorstor (based on Grandy Hendrix book)
Imposters
In a Violent Nature 2
Little Slice of Hell (Dir. David F. Sandberg)
Magic (remake, Sam Raimi producing)
The Masque of the Red Death (A24 reimagining)
Medicina Para Fantasmas
The Mist (Dir. Mike Flanagan)
Motherwitch
The Mummy 4 (May 19, 2028)
Omnicron
Orphans
Pacifico
Paranormal Activity (May 21, 2027)
Pendulum (produced by Darren Aronofsky)
Perdita
Possession (remake!)
A Quiet Place, Part III
The Remedy
The Revenge of La Llorona (April 9, 2027)
Riddick: Furya
Sender
Smile 3
Talk 2 Me (Sequel) - 2028
Thanksgiving 2 - 2028
They Follow - 2027
Thread: An Insidious Tale
Tinsman Rd.
Untitled Jordan Peele Movie - 2028
Visitation
The Weekend (Nigerian horror)
What Happened to Doris?
What Happens At Night (Dir. Martin Scorcese)
Witches (UK documentary)
The Young People (Dir. Osgood Perkins)
UPCOMING SERIES (DATE TBA)
Angel Heart (HBO, starring Zac Efron)
The Birds (Limited Series)
The Conjuring (prequel series, HBO)
Hostel (starring Paul Giamatti)
Summer of 1985 (Swedish, Series)
Wednesday, Season 3 (2027)
The Warrens (Series, HBO, 2028)
Updated 9-17-2026
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